Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

How could a poet who worked in an oral tradition maintain the momentum of his song? How could a poet such as Homer weave a tale which filled an eve...

It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding o...

This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and ...

This is an acclaimed study of the understanding of sex and gender in the early modern period, examining in particular Milton's interventions in the...

This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life ...

This is volume four of the landmark edition of Byron's poetry. Indispensable for Byron scholars, it represents the most comprehensive editing of hi...

Aeneid Book 2

This collection of essays, written over a period of almost thirty years, deals with one problem: who is the `I' in the odes of the most celebrated ...

This book provides the foremost critical edition of the Greek lyric poets: Alcman, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides and Corinna, and other ...

Although George Crabbe (1754-1832) was acclaimed by his contemporaries--receiving high praise from Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, a...

This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows how one traditionally esteemed author, the Roman poet Virgil, played an une...

This is the first of a four-volume edition of Greek lyric fragments which takes account of recent papyrus finds and new editions of those works in ...

This is the first full scholarly edition of Browning's greatest and perhaps best-known collection of short poems, Men and Women. A comprehensive in...

A scholarly edition of prose works by Fulke Greville. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, ...

This volume contains six of the eight Bells and Pomegranates, modestly-priced pamphlets published by Edward Moxon in a bid to help Browning recover...

Pre-Raphaelitism was the first avant-garde movement in Britain. It shocked its first audience, and as it modulated into Aestheticism it continued t...

A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

Although Housman's three collections of poems, the third published posthumously, have remained popular, they have not received much serious critica...

The first Selected Poems of John Davidson for 30 years, this new selection brings together the best of his work both from the 1890s and his later m...

AlthoughThe Decameron and The Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular collections of me...

A scholarly edition of letters by Robert Burns. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and sc...

The additional material in this volume of poems from Clare's middle period includes some of his finest poems, such as `The Last of Summer', `The Mo...

Claudian is often called the last poet of the classical tradition. This is the first ever English edition of his last extant work, with a full intr...